Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes III

-Our defensive rules are based on each player's knowing where the ball is and trying to keep it from going where we don't want it to go.
-A combination of the two types of defense man to man and zone, within the same possession could be very good.
-When we are playing against a really good shooter, we don't help from him at all. (The player who is with him, doesn't go to help anybody else)
-The team preparation facet of coaching is based on figuring out two basic things: how to stop somebody and how could we score on that opponent. It's a matter of having a sound fundamental base. On offense, your players don't take bad shots. They don't throw the ball away. They move without the ball. They help each other get open. On defense, your teams don't give up easy points on conversion, on fast breaks. They don't commit bad fouls and they have to control the lane, and know where the ball is at all times.
-The mental is to the physical as four is to one. And one thing more almost supersedes everything else: enthusiasm.
-Offensively, if it is a pressuring man to man we have to take the ball to the bucket: catch the ball, face, fake and drive. Do that, do it well, and you will be on the foul line. Almost invariably.
-My job is to get us to play as well as we can as often as we can. More than anything else, that's what I have to do and it will have a direct carry over to whatever each kid winds up doing in life.
-It is much better to make things happen than wait for things to happen.
-If you are going to accept pay for something, do it right.
-If you can't pay for it, do without until you can. The only time my dad ever owed a cent was when he took a twenty years mortgage. He gave up everything he liked to do and paid off the mortgage in over four years. He is the most honest man I have ever known.